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Mimeo BP, no. 036 (1948)

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Sweet Corn Performance Tests, 1948 1/
by Glenn Smith
Botany and Plant Pathology
Mimeograph No. BP 36
Purdue University Agricultural
Experiment Station.
The 1948 sweet corn performance tests were of two types; experimental
hybrids developed as part of the sweet corn project and trials of commercial
hybrids obtained from seedsmen or collected from seed furnished to Indiana
canners for field planting. The commercial hybrids were planted at Lafayette
and at the Purdue Muck Farm in cooperation with the Department of Horticulture.
Tables 1 and 2 present lists of the varieties planted at the two
localities, showing the name of the seedsman, the canner from whom the sample
was collected and the initial of the producer in those cases where one hybrid
was distributed by different seedsmen.
In the Lafayette trials all samples were replicated 5 times in double
rows 10 hills long checked 3-1/2 x 3-1/3 feet. All yields were based on a
perfect stand of three plants per hill. Data on these trials include rank
based on yield, silking date, average height of plant and ear, average number
of suckers per plant, yield of green corn in dozens and in tons per acre and the
average weight per ear.
There were 5 groups in the Lafayette trials, two of which were yellow and
3 white types. All were planted in the same field and except for slight irregul-
arities in topography were comparable in growth and development.
1/ Conducted in cooperation with the Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases,
Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural
Research Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture.

-1-
Sweet Corn Performance Tests, 1948 1/
by Glenn Smith
Botany and Plant Pathology
Mimeograph No. BP 36
Purdue University Agricultural
Experiment Station.
The 1948 sweet corn performance tests were of two types; experimental
hybrids developed as part of the sweet corn project and trials of commercial
hybrids obtained from seedsmen or collected from seed furnished to Indiana
canners for field planting. The commercial hybrids were planted at Lafayette
and at the Purdue Muck Farm in cooperation with the Department of Horticulture.
Tables 1 and 2 present lists of the varieties planted at the two
localities, showing the name of the seedsman, the canner from whom the sample
was collected and the initial of the producer in those cases where one hybrid
was distributed by different seedsmen.
In the Lafayette trials all samples were replicated 5 times in double
rows 10 hills long checked 3-1/2 x 3-1/3 feet. All yields were based on a
perfect stand of three plants per hill. Data on these trials include rank
based on yield, silking date, average height of plant and ear, average number
of suckers per plant, yield of green corn in dozens and in tons per acre and the
average weight per ear.
There were 5 groups in the Lafayette trials, two of which were yellow and
3 white types. All were planted in the same field and except for slight irregul-
arities in topography were comparable in growth and development.
1/ Conducted in cooperation with the Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases,
Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural
Research Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture.